PDFsharp: First Steps

Modified on 2009/08/12 12:05 by Thomas Hövel Categorized as Articles, PDFsharp Articles

Both PDFsharp and MigraDoc provide a lot of AddXxx functions. Typically these functions return the newly created objects.
Once you’ve learned the basic principles it’s quite easy to work with. Intellisense helps a lot then. And the new help system that integrates with the Visual Studio online help will provide information about any class in PDFsharp and MigraDoc – simply by hitting F1.

==PDFsharp - Getting Started==
A good place to start is the Samples folder that comes with the source code. This wiki also shows the [PDFsharpSamples|PDFsharp Samples].

We’ll discuss a few lines of the [HelloWorld-sample|Hello World sample] here.

You’ll need a PDF document:
{s:beginCsharp}
PdfDocument document = new PdfDocument();
{s:endCsharp}
And you need a page:
{s:beginCsharp}
PdfPage page = document.AddPage();
{s:endCsharp}
Drawing is done with an XGraphics object:
{s:beginCsharp}
XGraphics gfx = XGraphics.FromPdfPage(page);
{s:endCsharp}
Then you'll create a font:
{s:beginCsharp}
XFont font = new XFont("Verdana", 20, XFontStyle.Bold);
{s:endCsharp}
And you use that font to draw a string:
{s:beginCsharp}
gfx.DrawString("Hello, World!", font, XBrushes.Black,
  new XRect(0, 0, page.Width, page.Height),
  XStringFormat.Center);
{s:endCsharp}
When drawing is done, write the file:
{s:beginCsharp}
string filename = "HelloWorld.pdf";
document.Save(filename);
{s:endCsharp}
A PC application might show the file:
{s:beginCsharp}
Process.Start(filename);
{s:endCsharp}
A web application would return the PDF file in an HTTP response. Look at our web samples how to do this.

The [HelloWorld-sample|Hello World sample] is also available as an [HelloWorld-sample-VB|Visual Basic sample].

See also:
[PDFsharpSamples|PDFsharp Samples]

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